The Lincoln Room:
First Achievements Malcolm Johnstone
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F THE FACE OF HELEN OF TROY LAUNCHED A thousand ships, then it may be said that the words of Joseph J. Lewis launched 15 thousand biographies of Abraham Lincoln. The fleet of Lincoln biographies set sail, so to speak, when the first, written by Lewis, was published on February 11, 1860 in the lower level of the historic Lincoln Building, now home to the Chester County Community Foundation. That former publishing space on the lower level, now called The Lincoln Room, is used an interpretive site for events surrounding this first biography, a publication that is said to have helped launch Lincoln’s presidential campaign. First photograph of the Lincoln Building, taken1958
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Above: Painting of Abraham Lincoln by local artist Bill Ewing, 2020
